Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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throat

UK /ˈθɹəʊt/ · US /ˈθɹoʊt/ noun, verb

Forms throats throating throated throate throte

  1. noun The front part of the neck. “The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.”
  2. noun The gullet or windpipe. “As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.”
  3. noun A narrow opening in a vessel. “The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.”
  4. noun The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
  5. noun (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  6. noun (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
  7. noun (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  8. noun (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
  9. verb (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
  10. verb (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
  11. verb (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Synonyms

esophagus gullet oesophagus trachea windpipe neck bottleneck pharynx

Antonyms

peak

Etymology

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
  2. noun A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
  3. verb To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [Obs.]
  4. verb To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [Prov.

Etymology [OE. throte, AS. , ; akin to OHG. drozza, G. drossel; cf. OFries. & D. stort. Cf. Throttle.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “throat”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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